Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
E. O. WILSONOf course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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